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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65534	A brief and modest reply to Mr. Penn's tedious, scurrilous and unchristian defence against the Bishop of Cork	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1489; ESTC R38532	21,311	30

would not be made by themselves who only laid down the Principle but by the persons who deduced the consequences which consequences the Quakers would have liberty to accept or deny as they pleased For no one is bound to own all the consequences which some will draw from or affix to his words Which last particular serves for an Answer to much that follows and fully Vindicates the Bp. for saying that their Confession touching the being of GOD or of the First Article of the Creed by reporting it only thus That GOD is and that He is a rewarder of all them that fear Him is imperfect Can any thing be more manifest than that here is not a word of GODs Creating the present World or Supporting it by his Providence or concerning himself about the Inanimate part of it with a multitude of other particulars But says Mr. P. p. 27. by the Bps. leave He that belives in GOD believes all that 's necessary to the Supreme Being The Bp. demands who knows what some Men mean by GOD or will aknowledge necessary to the Supreme Being A Great Man has told us that with the Gentile World i. e. far the most of Mankind what ever was above human condition or the common Peoples understanding was presently called a GOD And so they made Thousands of GODs Again take GOD for the True Supreme Being even they who acknowledge him such do not agree in all those Atributes which Christianity teaches of him For instance not in such an Omniscience which comprehends the knowledge of all future contingents nor in such infinite goodness and Philanthropy as moved Him to give His only Son by Death to redeem all Mankind and in many other like points of Revealed Religon and in a word whereas Mr. P. saith that Heb. 11. 6. seems exprest for a Declaration of Faith in GOD The Bp. takes the freedom to inform him that it was not at all intended for a full confession of Christian Faith as to that Article thereof touching the Being Nature and Works of GOD but onely of such an Initial or Natural Faith which men had or might have without Revelation for of the Faith of such viz. Abel and Enoch and those who lived before the Flood without any Revelation that we read of he there discourses Now what an easie prevention of all this imperfection and uncertainty had it been for Mr. P. and his Party to have said I believe in GOD the Father Almighty master of Heaven and Earth but this had been confessing an Article of Faith in a way beneath their Light Again the acknowledging future Rewards and Punishments p. 28. 29. no more infers the Resurrection from the Dead or Eternity of Torments to the Damned then any of the former points imply what Mr. P. would have comprehended in them The Heathens who in their way demonstrate the Immortality of the Soul believed also different Estates and so Rewards and Punishments in that Immortal Life yet never thought of the Resurrection of the Dead and some of them when they heard of it scoffed at it and called him a vain Babler that Preached it to them And if Mr. P. were a man of such a general Reading as he pretends to he would have known there was one SYNESIUS a Christian Philosopher to say no more who profest he could not believe the Resurrection of the Body though he believed all the other Articles of the Apostles Creed And being that Mr. P. is so well accquainted with the Doctrines and Books of the Socinians as he pretends to be the Bp. must return his Phrase upon him that it is Mr. Ps. fault and next to impossible he he should be Ignorant that those who believe future Rewards and Punishments do not all of them believe the future Punishments Eternal The Bp. thinks also that there was such a Person in the World as Origen and others called the Merciful Doctors who believed future Rewards and Punishments yet did not beliefe what Mr. P. would have inferred thence the Punishment of the Damned to be Everlasting It had been necessary therefore for him and his Brethren explicitly to have declared their belief of these two main Articles The Resurrection and Eternal Torments even amongst the Truths chiefly believed by them that we might have known the Quakers to be neither Heathens nor Socinians in these points which herein it is plain they may be notwithstanding their belief that GOD is a rewarder of them who seek him In the end of p. 29. and all the 30. Mr. P. tragically exclaims against the Bp. for saying that that Text of the Three that bear Witness in Heaven being one 1 John 5. 7. is not the summ of what the Holy Scripture teacheth nor a sufficient confession of faith of the Holy Trinity He insinuates which is utterly false that the Bp. sleights that as but a by passage or of little Credit For the wiping off Mr. P s Aspersions the Bp. appeals to what in his Paper he Writ And further saith it is no bold attempt in one of his Station no nor one in a meaner to say that one single Text of Scripture does not contain all that the Scripture teacheth touching an Article of Faith or as the matter in hand is a Complication of Doctrines out of Three or more Articles of our Creed Let Mr. P. insinuate what he pleases of the Bp. no man of Sense and Reason who considers this Text and receives the Nicene Creed and the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England can say otherwise than the Bp. did For let any Person read the Nicene Creed and the First of the Thirty Nine Articles and say if All that is in that Creed and Article touching this Mistery be expressed or apparently implyed in that one Text. And finally as to the B ps saying the Apostle spoke what there he had occasion to say and what was to his purpose is most true Mr. P. demands what that occasion what that purpose was The Bp. answers out of ver 1. and 5. It was to prove that Jesus Christ is the Son of GOD this the Apostle proves by three Witnesses on Earth and three Witnesses in Heaven ver 6. 7 8. and by that means to settle the Faith and Hope of Christian Souls in the LORD JESUS This was his purpose and not fully there to declare the Doctrine of the Trinity which is no where done in any one Text of Scripture but is to be gathered out of many To cut short in these instances wherein Mr. P. thought it enough to confess his Faith by supposing people would be so charitable as to infer from what he exprest that which by no rules of reasoning would follow all the World as well as the Bp. have reason to require of Mr. P. and his Party a more explicit confession of Faith if they expect to be accounted Christians And that for other reasons than the Bp. has given Especially this for one That a great Person amongst

them who professes as concerning their Principles he was deceived by them thinking they had held sincerely the Principles which by a more diligent search he finds they hold not assures us and has Printed Testimonies out of their Books to prove they deny 1. Faith in Christ as George Keith in his Third Narrative he outwardly suffered at Jerusalem as he rose again Ascended and now Sits at the Right Hand of God to be necessary to Salvation 2. Justification by the Blood of Christ outwardly shed 3. A Resurrection of the Body that Dyeth 4. Christs coming again without us in his glorified Body to Judge the Quick and the Dead Nay the same Person professes as the Bp. has seen under his hand That he really thinks he can prove W. P. holds not one of the Articles of the Christian Creed soundly and intirely and that none ever more plainly oppugned the Doctrine of the Scriptures than W. P. and his Party Upon so close an Evidence as this is let the World judge if the Bp. be unreasonable in demanding a better confession of Faith than by meer Innuendo's as necessary to their being allowed Christians True indeed now in his Defence Mr. P. tells the World he and his Brethren receive all the Articles of the Creed called the Apostles p. 97. But this may be reckoned one of the good effects the Bps Paper has had to bring them to this acknowledgment and t is to be hoped they will be kept to it It would be as endless as needless and besides would swell this Paper to too great a Bulk to follow Mr. P. Page by Page to the End Replying to all his little Cavils and poor Evasions A more Compendious way therefore must be taken Which shall be 1. By reducing Mr. P s Answers and Arguments to some Common Heads or Figures of Speech which he uses so contemptible in themselves as that the instances of them are answered by being shewn And 2. by singling out the more material Points wherein Mr. P. Enlarges and setting them in their true Light The several Heads to which his Answers may be reduced are either manifest Impieties or manifold arts of Uncharitableness and Disingenuity much unbecoming a Christian or even a fair Disputant Manifest Impieties are 1. His falsifying the sense of Scripture and then the words of it so plainly that he cannot well seem insensible of it himself Thus whereas our LORD said John III. 20. Every one that doeth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved Which passage to make look favourably to his purpose he corrupts the 21st verse and reads it thus He that loves the Light brings his Deeds to the Light to see if they are wrought in GOD. p. 10. 4. Whereas the plain meaning of the Text is no more than They that do evil seek to be hid 1 Thes 5. 7. They that are Drunken are Drunken in the Night They who do well fear not to be seen To which sense every Nation has Proverbs Si factum est bonum quorsum tenebris opus est and with us Truth seeks not Corners with many like now contrary to the sense of Mankind as well of the Holy Ghost W. P. produces this Text as a proof of the Light within and that it is to be the Rule and Judge of our Life and Deeds yea to credit confirm and expound Scripture So does he too with like reasonableness Eph. V. 11 12 13. 2. His plain reproaching the Holy Spirit in the Apostles as to what they taught Thus when he had no other way to answer the Bps Argument for the Divine Authority of Baptism by Water taken from Acts X. 47. 48. he says plainly In all which Peter seems more concerned to save his own credit than to recommend or establish Water-Baptism p. 81. A man would think this were not expressing himself reverently on this tender point or as he promised p. 68. These for a Tast Single instances under each Head for brevity sake must suffice Manifold Arts of Uncharitableness and Disingenuity the Bp. accounts these that follow 1. Calumnious and Spiteful Insinuations as p. 30. that he the Bp. believes not the Thirty Nine Articles yet did W. P. never discourse with him touching any one of them with many like passages 2. False Imputations p. 69. He downright charges the Bp. for treating the Quakers with Levity and Scorn as to the Language Thou and Thee The Bp. Challenges him to shew a light or scornful Expression in that his Paper Nay rather than fail W. P. will impute to the Bp. his own uncharitable censures of him The Bishop according to his usual way of plain dealing and speaking home to mens Consciences to the end they may search their Hearts touching their secret and unseen sins which are known only to God and their own Consciences dealt roundly with the Quakers and put some Questions to them conjuring them to put them to themselves and Examine their own Conscience For instance the Bp. has long observed and all Men may observe as Notorious the Quakers eager pursuit of wealth and their effectual wily and secret ways of getting it Now hereupon he bids them Examine their Consciences Whether their main end and study by their pretended Mortifications and renouncing the World be not to enrich themselves and to make themselves a party considerable c. This Mr. P. makes one of the Bps. censures and then charges it upon the Bp. as the worst construction that the most irreligious and profane could make of their behaviour The Bp. did not affix it to them and all along avows that he suspends any Censure or Judgment of them He professes it is not his right in this sense to judge But he now demands of Mr. P. whether when Peoples Actions are suspicious it be not reasonable for nay the Duty of a faithful Pastor to conjure them to examine and judge themselves which is all the Bp. did Yet still Mr. P. goes on in this false imputation p. 117. The Bp. says he tells us he will not judg us yet his whole Paper is one continued Judgment of us Sure Mr. P. does not know or will not attend what judging as it means censoriousness is The Bp. most plainly judged not the Quakers Belief in their Consciences but that Form which Mr. P. and his Brethren professed or to use their own term declared in this Paper And the Bp. stands to it both the Authors and the Paper deserve another kind of Censure then he gave or attempted on Either Notwithstanding Mr. P. sticks not upon this very reason to charge the Bp. of Irreligion making them as bad as bad can be c. p. 117. God give Mr. P. more Charity and Reason for this is plain censoriousness and concluding without consequence 3 Sly Jeers p. 27. I would have my Reader reflect on this though he were as big as a Bp. p. 40. No Bp. in these three Kingdoms has the big and